The Shadow Of The Precursor

Author : Nena Bierbaum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443834865

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The Shadow of the Precursor by Nena Bierbaum Pdf

A shadow, in its most literal sense, is the projection of a silhouette against a surface and the obstruction of direct light from hitting that surface. For writers and artists, the shadows cast by their precursors can be either a welcome influence, one consciously evoked in textual production via homage or bricolage, or can manifest as an intrusive, haunting, prohibitive presence, one which threatens to engulf the successor. Many writers and artists are affected by an anxious and ambiguous relationship with their precursors, while others are energised by this relationship. The role that intertextuality plays in creative production invites interrogation, and this publication explores a range of conscious and unconscious influences informing relations between texts and contexts, between predecessors and successors. The chapters revolve around intertextual influence, ranging from conscious imitation and intentional allusion to Julia Kristeva’s idea of intertextuality. Do all texts contain references to and even quotations from other texts? Do such references help shape how we read? This multidisciplinary work includes chapters on the long shadows cast by Shakespeare, Dante, Scott, Virgil and Ovid, the shadows of colonial precursors on postcolonial successors, the shadows cast over Kipling and Murdoch, and chapters on other writers, dramatists and filmmakers and their relationships with precursor figures. With its focus on intertextual relationships, this book contributes to the thriving fields of adaptation studies and studies of intertextuality.

Author : S. Matthews
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230599482

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Yeats as Precursor by S. Matthews Pdf

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space. By engaging with the formalist criticism of Harold Bloom and Paul de Man in their dialogues with Jacques Derrida, he also considers Yeats's significance as the founding presence within the major poetry criticism of the century.

Author : Ronald J. Friis
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838754929

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José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows by Ronald J. Friis Pdf

"Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309092166

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Accident Precursor Analysis and Management by National Academy of Engineering Pdf

In the aftermath of catastrophes, it is common to find prior indicators, missed signals, and dismissed alerts that, had they been recognized and appropriately managed before the event, could have resulted in the undesired event being averted. These indicators are typically called "precursors." Accident Precursor Analysis and Management: Reducing Technological Risk Through Diligence documents various industrial and academic approaches to detecting, analyzing, and benefiting from accident precursors and examines public-sector and private-sector roles in the collection and use of precursor information. The book includes the analysis, findings and recommendations of the authoring NAE committee as well as eleven individually authored background papers on the opportunity of precursor analysis and management, risk assessment, risk management, and linking risk assessment and management.

Author : Clayton Crockett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231530910

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Deleuze Beyond Badiou by Clayton Crockett Pdf

First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou had portrayed. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations.

Author : Clayton Crockett
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823277858

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Derrida after the End of Writing by Clayton Crockett Pdf

What are we to make of Jacques Derrida’s famous claim that “every other is every other,” if the other could also be an object, a stone or an elementary particle? Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical and natural sciences, as well as ecology. Derrida After the End of Writing argues for the importance of reading Derrida’s later work from a new materialist perspective. In conversation with Heidegger, Lacan, and Deleuze, and critically engaging newer philosophies of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, Crockett claims that Derrida was never a linguistic idealist. Furthermore, something changes in his later philosophy something that cannot be simply described as a “turn.” In Catherine Malabou’s terms, there is a shift from a motor scheme of writing to a motor scheme of plasticity. Crockett explores some of the implications of interpreting Derrida through the new materialist lens of technicity or plasticity, attending to the significance of ethics, religion, and politics in his later work. By reading Derrida from a new materialist perspective, Crockett provides fresh readings of his ideas of sovereignty, religion, responsibility, and mourning. These new readings produce fruitful engagements with the thinkers who have followed Derrida, including Malabou, Timothy Morton, John D. Caputo, and Karen Barad. Here is a new reading of Derrida that moves beyond conventional understandings of poststructuralism and deconstruction, a reading that is responsive to and critical of some of the crucial developments shaping the humanities today.

Author : Kerry McSweeney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773560345

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What's the Import? by Kerry McSweeney Pdf

Two conspicuous features of the radical transformation of literary studies over the past three decades have been the dominance of theory-based interpretative discourse and cultural studies contextualizations. Both have greatly energized literary studies - but they have done so at a cost.

Author : Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350084537

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John Banville and His Precursors by Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Butler Pdf

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot. Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osmond – John Banville and His Precursors reveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions - Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism – and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways.

Author : William S. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh Pdf

Author : Rosa Córdoba Castillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319020815

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Functional Nanostructures Fabricated by Focused Electron/Ion Beam Induced Deposition by Rosa Córdoba Castillo Pdf

This thesis constitutes a detailed study of functional nanostructures (ferromagnetic, superconducting, metallic and semiconducting) fabricated by focused electron/ion beam induced deposition techniques. The nanostructures were grown using different precursor materials such as Co2(CO)8, Fe2(CO)9, W(CO)6, (CH3)3Pt(CpCH3) and were characterized by a wide range of techniques. This work reports results obtained for the morphology, the microstructure, the composition, the electrical transport mechanism, magnetic and superconducting properties of nanostructures. The results offers exciting prospects in a wide range of applications in nanotechnology and condensed matter physics.

Author : William Chapman Sharpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190682255

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Grasping Shadows by William Chapman Sharpe Pdf

What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of the Rings to the latest video game, shadows act as central players in the drama of Western culture. Yet because they work silently, artistic shadows often slip unnoticed past audiences and critics. Conceived as an accessible introduction to this elusive phenomenon, Grasping Shadows is the first book that offers a general theory of how all shadows function in texts and visual media. Arguing that shadow images take shape within a common cultural field where visual and verbal meanings overlap, William Sharpe ranges widely among classic and modern works, revealing the key motifs that link apparently disparate works such as those by Fra Angelico and James Joyce, Clementina Hawarden and Kara Walker, Charles Dickens and Kumi Yamashita. Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagery, Grasping Shadows guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward. The last chapter traces how shadows impact the art of the modern city, from Renoir and Zola to film noir and projection systems that capture the shadows of passers-by on streets around the globe. Extending his analysis to contemporary street art, popular songs, billboards, and shadow-theatre, Sharpe demonstrates a practical way to grasp the "dark side" that looms all around us.

Author : Allen W. Apblett,Andrew R. Barron,Aloysius F. Hepp
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128203446

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Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors by Allen W. Apblett,Andrew R. Barron,Aloysius F. Hepp Pdf

Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors: Synthesis, Processing and Applications presents recent results and overviews of synthesis, processing, characterization and applications of advanced materials for energy, electronics, biomedicine, sensors and aerospace. A variety of processing methods (vapor, liquid and solid-state) are covered, along with materials, including metals, oxides, semiconductor, sulfides, selenides, nitrides, and carbon-based materials. Production of quantum dots, nanoparticles, thin films and composites are described by a collection of international experts. Given the ability to customize the phase, morphology, and properties of target materials, this “rational approach to synthesis and processing is a disruptive technology for electronic, energy, structural and biomedical (nano)materials and devices. The use of single-source chemical precursors for materials processing technology allows for intimate elemental mixing and hence production of complex materials at temperatures well below traditional physical methods and those involving direct combination of elements. The use of lower temperatures enables thin-film deposition on lightweight polymer substrates and reduces damage to complex devices structures such as used in power, electronics and sensors. Discusses new approaches to synthesis or single-source precursors (SSPs) and the concept of rational design of materials Includes materials processing of SSPs in the design of new materials and novel devices Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject (materials science and chemistry) as related to SSPs and the range of potential applications

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087902919

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Critical Readings in Teacher Education by Anonim Pdf

Like other fields of study, teacher education defines itself both by what it includes and by what it excludes. Teacher educators and researchers have spent a great deal of time seeking and attempting to eradicate the flaws in existing structures and practices, but significantly less time learning to perceive the absences.

Author : Helen Borrie
Publisher : Apress
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430207436

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The Firebird Book by Helen Borrie Pdf

* This is the "official" book on FirebirdSQL—it’s being written with the support of the development and management team. * Includes an extensive set of working, real-world examples, a troubleshooting guide, and a guide to migrating existing databases to FirebirdSQL. * This is the only book on the topic; appeals to users worldwide, especially in Europe; Most people deploy Firebird on Windows.

Author : Sally Harvey
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855660342

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Carpentier's Proustian Fiction by Sally Harvey Pdf

Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.